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Short squeeze is starting in shares of ESI at $20.65, after crossing above the $20.551 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-01 10:30:11 - WOPRAI
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In the past 20 years (since 2005 with the introduction of RegSho), short selling has come under scrutiny as millions of retail investors have discovered what we have been highlighting since early 2005. Market makers abuse the “market maker’s exemption” and short excessive amounts of shares in your stock without locating, borrowing, paying the rebate or the interest rate to borrow. They are required to cover on the same trading day, and our data proves they do not.

The chart below shows “Daily Short Volume” in Element Solutions Inc (ESI), and includes both EXEMPT (market makers) and NON-EXEMPT (everyone else) short sales. We consolidate the tape of all 14 US stock exchanges and purchase the “sell short” trade identifier data directly from the exchanges on a daily basis. This complete view of the trading in your stock shows a vastly different picture than “Total Short Interest”, which only includes non-exempt short sales that have not been covered by the twice per month reporting date. Unfortunately, this misses the majority of the short selling.

This indicates that a Short Squeeze may be starting in shares of Element Solutions Inc at $20.65, after crossing above the $20.551 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

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Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-04-30705,2372,640,60726.7120.2414,273,997
2025-04-29600,1162,481,33624.1920.2812,170,352
2025-04-28892,4391,985,95044.9420.0617,902,326
2025-04-251,134,3272,966,06538.2420.2823,004,152
2025-04-242,116,1775,526,92238.2920.4443,254,658
2025-04-232,329,9865,333,79243.6819.5645,574,526
2025-04-222,349,36912,141,33619.3518.3943,204,896
2025-04-211,611,9085,992,47926.918.0129,030,463
2025-04-171,115,7463,268,54634.1418.9521,143,387
2025-04-161,476,5243,952,11037.3618.6227,492,877
2025-04-151,078,3823,103,29234.7518.820,273,582
2025-04-141,141,2633,524,21432.3818.9621,638,346
2025-04-111,025,0473,391,02730.2317.9218,368,842
2025-04-101,391,2423,651,33238.117.9925,028,444
2025-04-091,842,4247,892,01823.3518.4133,919,026
2025-04-081,653,5326,219,29626.5917.8529,515,546
2025-04-071,788,8766,493,99827.5518.232,557,543
2025-04-041,024,0185,021,62120.3918.2718,708,809
2025-04-031,449,5244,834,11829.9920.5629,802,213
2025-04-02824,7072,189,16937.6722.6418,671,366
2025-04-011,479,1004,535,38432.6122.4733,235,377
2025-03-311,035,9833,815,18327.1522.5823,392,496
2025-03-28948,6873,079,41830.8122.9721,791,340
2025-03-272,484,8147,241,02434.3223.5558,517,370
2025-03-26806,3392,055,18239.2324.7419,948,827
2025-03-251,060,4032,447,09943.3325.0326,541,887
2025-03-241,115,7483,158,48235.3325.5928,551,991
2025-03-2116,358,06266,504,45424.625.26413,204,646
2025-03-201,126,6683,485,51832.3226.329,631,368
2025-03-191,270,6165,872,57321.6426.3133,429,907
2025-03-181,217,0933,611,04833.726.4932,240,794
2025-03-17959,6692,848,94433.6926.5325,460,019
2025-03-141,042,9562,912,62735.8126.0327,148,145
2025-03-131,023,5043,112,73332.8825.1525,741,126
2025-03-121,241,2063,529,75635.1625.3531,464,572
2025-03-111,824,3545,042,71636.1825.4246,375,079
2025-03-101,791,5557,909,00522.6525.2545,236,764
 
Total621,244,5892,133,331,31829.1220.5712,778,746,753
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-04 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.